Philibert-Louis Debucourt

Exhibited by David Tunick, Inc.

Material Pen and black ink, pencil, and gray wash on paper

Dimensions 41.5 x 72.5 cm (16 1/4 x 28 1/2 in)

Place of Creation Paris, France

Price Price upon request.

Status Vetted

About the Work

Debucourt, in rich detail, captures the opulent bourgeois lifestyle of the Ancien Regime in "Promenade de la Galerie du Palais Royal" (c. 1787), a large drawing related to the artist’s well-known print of the same name. Here, he depicted a carnival-like atmosphere in which his cast of characters move through the arcade of the Palais Royal on their way to amuse themselves at one of the many boutiques, theaters, game parlors, and other establishments within the palace.

In the lower right corner, Debucourt includes a jumble of objets d'art that may be a sly social commentary on the excess of the upper class – or is it, “Out with the old, in with the new”?

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Provenance

Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York; c. 1990 to
Ivan E. Phillips (1934-2022), New York); 2022 by descent to
The Phillips Family Collection, U.S.A.

Literature

Baillio, Joseph, The Winds of Revolution ,Wildenstein [Exh. Cat.], New York, 1989, fig. 59, p. 66, illus.
Baillio, Joseph et al., The Arts of France from François 1st to Napoléon 1st, Wildenstein [Exh. Cat.], New York, 2005, no. 140, p. 317, illus.